Yesterday startup conference TechChill Baltics took place in Riga, Latvia and I caught up with the new kids on the block to learn about their businesses.

You may read more details about the teams in my TechCrunch post, but in summary here they are.

BliuBliu is a Lithuanian startup that aims to make it easier to learn minor languages, a challenge that typical language course developers avoid for the economic reasons. The company is working on a tool that assesses student’s familiarity with the language, and proceeds with offering suitable texts and multimedia materials found online that would be quite easy to understand.

Other teams that participated in the pitching competition came from Latvia. They include Spherico – a mobile app for many participants to contribute to a story, a speed-reading practice tool Fastr for iPad, Frendapp a mobile app recommendation service based on the actual app usage, and Froont, an online tool that allows non-technical designers prototype responsive websites that work on different displays, including smart phones.

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Natasha Starkell

TwitterLinkedInFacebook Google+ Natasha Starkell is the founder and CEO of GoalEurope, advisory firm focusing on technology investment and software development in Russia and Eastern Europe. Prior to starting GoalEurope she has worked in the field of finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and offshore outsourcing at Unisys Corporation in Switzerland and United Kingdom. She has an MBA degree from London Business School. She speaks Russian, English and German. She lives in Northern Germany.